Annotate chapter 3 for Tuesday. Prepare chapter 4 for Friday and Chapter 5 for Monday Feb. 13 (arg, it's first period)
See encouraging notes below: (LOL)
The hard part of teaching a novel is getting students to read it. You need a good hour to annotate each chapter. And then you need another 20 minutes to go back and think about the chapter with our two guiding questions: What is revealed about the artist (ie what is Stephen learning, experiencing and how will that shape him as an artist?) and what is revealed about the role of art? What attitudes toward art are depicted. We spoke about the Romantic attitude, in particular Shelley's, in chapter 1, and today, Byron (Aprostrophe to the Ocean) and the Bryronic heor and Wordsworth (The Prelude) initially called The Growth of a Poet's Mind (Wordsworth never felt it was complete. published after his death, and his sister gave it the title).
The reason we are treating the novel in such detail is to prepare you for the final essay on the AP exam. Whatever book or play you choose, you need to be able to recall key events and characters and ideally quotations in order to support your opinions and prove the thesis. A shallow, vague discussion will not work. To prepare for the exam, I suggest that you
- Read with a pen in your hand.
- Annotate.
- Pick a key event from each chapter to represent it.
- Name the chapters.
- Pick a key quotation from each chapter.
- Memorize it.
- Create note cards for studying purposes.
- You won't be able to re-read all the works we've done but you can re-read your notes and create study cards.
Your poetry essays were eloquent, provocative, engaging. Well done.
